Despite a looming trade war between the U.S. and all of its major trading partners now seeming almost certain, at a campaign rally earlier this week, President Trump declared that “It’s all working out great.” Although clearly not everything, as he used the occasion to complain again about Canada’s “unfair” trade practices and repeated his latest threat to hit Canadian-made automobiles with punitive tariffs, framing the move as possible retaliation for Canada’s prohibitive over-quota dairy tariffs under its farm supply management system.
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A coalition of international dairy organizations last week called on their respective trade ministers to demand that Canada change its dairy policies, which it claims are facilitating “the unfair export of highly subsidized Canadian dairy products onto global dairy markets,” while at the same time increasing Canada’s barriers to dairy imports.
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